Dr Judy Lattas is Director of the Interdisciplinary Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality program in Sociology at Macquarie University. She has been teaching in women's studies and gender at Macquarie since 1989. Her PhD, entitled 'Politics in Labour,' was a deconstructivist reading of Hannah Arendt on the philosophical conditions of totalitarianism. In her research she has been interested in the popular right in Australia, publishing on Pauline Hanson, on gun activism, on secessionist micronations, and on the 'race riots' in Cronulla, Sydney.  Her current projects include a critical interest in the theory of moral panic and empirical work on bikies; a contribution to the study of schizophrenia, race and gender; an edited collection on micronationalism in Australia and around the world, and a monograph in which her various interests are drawn together (Supreme Beings (of Lower Earth): a project on the seizure of high-One symbolic positions by people of low-Other status). Her research also includes some scholarship of teaching publications resulting from a Learning and Teaching Fellowship in 2008.

In 2004 she was awarded an Outstanding Teacher Award at Macquarie University. She was the first Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in SCMP and held this position 2006-2008. In 2008 she won an inaugural Macquarie University Learning and Teaching Fellowship.